Nile Basin Cooperation

A Review of the Literature

• Author(s): Dahilon Yassin Mohamoda,
• Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
• Pages: 41
• ISBN_10: 9171065121
  ISBN_13: 9789171065124
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Africa / General , Political Science / General , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries ,

Description:... This paper reviews literature on the Nile basin co-operation and issues related to this process, focusing on more recent publications. The literature on utilization and management of the Nile waters related to basin-wide cooperation efforts has been growing fast during the last decade. This review discusses and covers a wide range of issues, which include: debate on water scarcity and its potential consequences in general, and its implications for the Nile basin countries in particular; legal aspects of utilization of the Nile waters focusing on the UN Watercourse Convention of 1997; conflicts and major attempts at cooperation; divergent views and interests of the basin countries; and challenges and prospects of the recent basin-wide cooperation.